A Song of Comfortable Chairs (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency)

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It was important, she felt, to keep your working life separate from your home life; she knew far too many people who allowed the cares of the job to intrude upon their home life, and these were the people who tended to become depressed or suffer from something that she had recently read about in a magazine - something referred to as burn-out.

However, her son is disrupting her newfound happiness with constant angry outbursts and meanness directed towards her new partner. It seems so easy for her, she helps her friends, mends fences, and with meticulous planning foils the darkest of hearts. Precious Ramotswe and her life in Botswana is a place I am always eager to curl up on the couch for. I picked it up at random from the library and wasn’t impressed by the lack of dead bodies in a cozy mystery (blame it on my bloodlust).Mma and I have traveled a long piece over the years, and every time she manages to surprise me with her wit and wisdom. The pace of the reading was fairly slow, so even ramping up the play speed meant that it was still pretty clear and understandable. Throughout it all, the ladies (and their men) muse on many topics: unheeded parental wisdom, the benefits of occasional consumption of unhealthy food, the proliferation of extra features on any saleable item, the demise of dining tables and plates, and the curse of phased redundancy and planned obsolescence. Grace keeps overreaching her position in the agency and Precious is increasingly tired of trying to defend her right as the No.

To summarize, A Song of Comfortable Chairs is the kind of book you want to sit with on cold noon and warm your heart. Much thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for an early audio copy in exchange for my honest review! Ladies' Detective Agency novels for philosophical asides such as this: It was a curious thing, she thought, that a person's eyes should tell you so much about what was going on inside them. His works have been translated into more than forty languages and have been best sellers throughout the world….There were so many ways in which people might reveal their thoughts and emotions — gestures of the hands, smiles, shrugs. There's a charming kind of wit peeping through in various scenes and a general sense that almost everyone means well. She shares the office with Grace Makutsi, whom she once hired as a secretary and considers a friend.

Some of the books have more substantial plots than others, and there is always a sprinkling of humor.Their plan includes an undercover actor visiting the home and interacting with the antagonistic, hostile teenager.